Keynote Speaker

Jacob Lamm Abstract Executive Vice President and General Manager Governance and Service Management Business Unit

Jacob Lamm is executive vice president and general manager at CA, responsible for the company's Governance and Service Management solutions, as well its India Technology Center. He is also a member of CA's Executive Leadership Team which defines and ensures execution of the Company's business and technical strategies.

Jacob has held various management positions since joining CA in 1998. Prior to assuming his current role he was responsible for CA's Service Management and Asset Management product lines.

Jacob has 20 years of industry experience covering a wide range of technologies and business applications.

He joined CA with its acquisition of Professional Help Desk (PHD), where he was co-founder and served as executive vice president and chief technology officer. Under his leadership, PHD evolved into one of the strongest products on the market and gained industry recognition as having the most visionary service management solution.

Prior to founding PHD, Jacob served as a senior manager at Con Edison in New York, where he was responsible for integrating new technologies into the company's business systems, including wireless communications, data warehousing, imaging, and Internet solutions. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Jacob earned a bachelor's degree in computer information science.

Simon Perry Abstract,  Presentation

Simon Perry is the founder of ThinkingString. Simon has over 20 years experience in the IT industry with a career spanning IT operations, IT security, and systems architecture. He has deep and broad experience of international operations having been based out of Australia, North America, and England (current) and having consulted to clients in more countries than there are pages in a passport.

Simon is an internationally recognized authority and speaker on corporate and personal electronic asset protection, and was an advisor to the European Network Information Security Agency's (ENISA), having been selected in 2005 to the agency's Permanent Stakeholders Group. He works closely with business and IT executives, and various industry watcher groups on emerging security threats and the techniques and technologies needed to counter them. Simon has also addressed heads of various defense forces around the world, and various interested governmental committees on security trends and electronic crime prevention. In 2001 he was awarded a citation by the FBI for his assistance in understanding cyber criminal techniques. Simon is also regularly sought by the press community and other industry watchers with regard to comment on emerging security threats and trends, and is widely published in that regard.

He is highly regarded for his strategic thinking regarding security threats, future technology trends and the implications of technology to society. Simon's current interests involve the human aspect of Identity and Access Management and the role that people play in achieving a desired information security state. He is also currently examining the issues of environmental sustainability and the implications to business operations models, especially the role that IT can play in supporting new ways of working.

From 1996 to 2007 Simon worked for CA, helping to build and direct their information security business unit from the ground up. During that time he played a number of strategic roles, including having responsibility for the newly created security brand's product management and strategy, running a nationwide presales team, providing strategic advice to C-level IT and business professionals, and working to ensure that the specific requirements of the international security markets were understood and addressed by product development.

Simon is regarded as a highly skilled, knowledgeable and entertaining speaker and has keynoted many industry conferences around the globe.