Comnet Summit :: Conference Advisory Board

November 28-30, 2005 Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel

John Gallant
Conference Advisor, ComNet Summit
President and Editorial Director – Network World
As president and editorial director of Network World Inc., John Gallant sets the strategy for the newsweekly, which serves over 170,000 network IT Executives. Mr. Gallant also guides the content and business development for Network World online, as well as Network World’s seminars and event programs. He is highly visible in the marketplace and frequently speaks at industry conferences including ComNet, Networld+Interop, and SUPERCOMM. He has been named by Technology Marketing magazine as one of the most influential people in computer journalism, and Press Access cited him as one of the most visionary editors-in-chief.

Craig Mathias
Conference Advisor, ComNet Summit
Principal – Farpoint Group
Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. Craig is an internationally recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a variety of topics. He is a well-known industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows, and is currently a member of the Advisory Boards for the Next Generation Networks (NGN), Wireless Sensing Solutions, Networld+Interop, WiMAX World, Wireless Security (co-Chair), ComNet Summit, and the Embedded Systems conferences. He also serves as the Wireless Guide and bimonthly columnist for wireless.itworld.com, and a monthly columnist for Electronic Engineering Times (“Radio Days”) and SearchCIO.com.

Jeffrey Kaplan
Conference Advisor, ComNet Summit
Managing Director - THINKstrategies
Jeff Kaplan is Managing Director of THINKstrategies, a firm he founded in 2001 to help solutions companies, IT executives, and IT venture capital firms re-THINK their IT strategies and redeploy their limited resources to meet their corporate objectives. Formerly, Mr. Kaplan was a leading industry analyst as IDC, Dataquest, and META Group and a successful senior marketing executive at InterOPS Management Solutions and International Network Services. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and contributing columnist for Mass High tech Journal, Network World, Business Communications review, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, and InternetWeek.

Tom Henderson
Conference Advisor, ComNet Summit
Managing Director – ExtremeLabs, Inc.
Tom Henderson is managing director of ExtremeLabs, Inc., of Indianapolis. The author/co-author of 10 books on networking and software, Mr. Henderson is a researcher in enterprise-level systems architecture, and has published over 2,500 technical articles, product reviews, columns, and features since 1981. As an engineer and systems integrator, Mr. Henderson’s firm designed and deployed over 500 networks prior to the sale of his company in 1993. Tom has also been a popular educator, and has taught thousands through networking, systems, and theoretical seminars throughout North America and internationally for IDG, NetWorld+Interop, and others. Mr. Henderson serves on numerous boards, including the Network World Global Test Alliance, Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Broadcasting, and others.

Steve Taylor
Conference Advisor, ComNet Summit
President - Webtorials

William Sell
Conference Director, ComNet Summit
Managing Partner, Advisor Communications
Bill Sell is a noted conference, trade show marketing, and business development executive currently managing a consulting practice in Natick, Massachusetts. Mr. Sell’s career began with the creation of Communication Networks in the late 1970s, the program which today has become ComNet Summit. Over the years he has held business development, product marketing and strategic event management roles in several industries and with many tradeshows. For seven years he was Vice President/General Manager for COMDEX Fall, overseeing the event during it’s heyday in Las Vegas, including four awards as “largest tradeshow in America.” In recent years Mr. Sell was conference, brand and marketing executive for CeBIT America, the U.S. edition of the global leader in technology events, CeBIT.