April 5, 2012
Thursday
5:30 pm
Broida 1610

Giovanni Vigna, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CTO, Lastline, Inc.

Giovanni Vigna is the Co-Founder of Lastline, Inc. He is also a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara. His current research interests include malware analysis, web security, vulnerability assessment, and intrusion detection. He also edited a book on Security and Mobile Agents and authored one on Intrusion Correlation. He has been the Program Chair of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2003), of the ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS 2009), and of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2010 and 2011). He is known for organizing and running an inter-university Capture The Flag hacking contest, called iCTF, that every year involves dozens of institutions around the world. Giovanni Vigna received his M.S. with honors and Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

April 12, 2012
Thursday
5:30 pm
Broida 1610

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Marten Mickos, CEO, Eucalyptus Systems

Marten builds global disruptive businesses. As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. After the acquisition by Sun Microsystems of MySQL AB for $1bn, he served as Senior Vice President of Sun's Database Group.

Previously, Mickos held multi-national CEO and senior executive positions in his native Finland. He is a member of the board of Electrosonic. Mickos holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology. In 2006 he received the Audemars Piguet "Changing Times Award: European Entrepreneur of the Year 2006" and the Nokia Foundation Award. Read more about Marten at Wikipedia.

April 19, 2012
Thursday
5:30 pm
Broida 1610

"Neurons and Networks"

Jeff Stibel, Chairman and CEO, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

Jeff is Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. At age 32, he became one of the youngest public company CEOs in America and opened the NASDAQ stock market on June 15, 2007. Mr. Stibel is also a brain scientist.

Mr. Stibel was previously President and CEO of Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) and General Manager of United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD). Prior to United Online, Stibel was founder and CEO of Simpli.com, now part of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK).

Jeff currently sits on the boards of numerous private and public companies including The Search Agency, EdgeCast Networks, BrainGate and Autobytel (NASDAQ: ABTL), as well as academic boards for Tufts University and Brown University. He is the author of numerous academic and business articles, including the book Wired for Thought (Harvard Business Press: 2009) and is the named inventor on the U.S. patent for search engine interfaces. Mr. Stibel studied business at MIT's Sloan School and brain science at Brown University, where he was the recipient of the Brain and Behavior Fellowship while studying for his PhD.

April 26, 2012
Thursday
5:30 pm
Broida 1610

Mark Templeton, CEO, Citrix

Mark Templeton is president and CEO of Citrix Systems, the leading provider of virtualization, networking and cloud computing technologies that let people work and play from anywhere on any device. Templeton leads the Citrix mission to create better ways for people, IT and business to work using virtual meetings, desktops and datacenters. He is responsible for the company's vision, market direction, product strategy and passion for customer care. In addition, he guides the company's unique culture by emphasizing values of respect, integrity, innovation and fun.

Templeton joined Citrix in 1995 as vice president of marketing, prior to the company's initial public offering. He was appointed president in 1998 and chief executive officer in 2001. Under his leadership, Citrix has been transformed from a $15 million organization with one product, one customer segment and one go-to-market path, to a global powerhouse with revenues of nearly $2 billion. Today, Citrix virtualization, networking and cloud computing products reach 230,000 enterprise customers and 100 million corporate desktops, and touch 75 percent of all Internet users each day. Citrix partners with more than 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries and employs nearly 6,000 people around the globe.

Templeton holds a bachelor's degree in product design from North Carolina State University and an MBA from the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business. He is a passionate participant in many community and charitable organizations and serves on the board of directors of Equifax (NYSE: EFX).

A popular and provocative speaker, Templeton has shared his perspective and technology vision with audiences at events such as CIO 100 and Interop, as well as the bi-annual Citrix Synergy™ user and Citrix Summit partner conferences. He has received numerous leadership awards, such as the AeA Abacus Award for Outstanding High-Tech Executive, "Businessperson of the Year" (EVIE Award) and the Excalibur Award.

May 17, 2012
Thursday
5:30 pm
Broida 1610

Kerri Pollard, President, Commission Junction

As president of Commission Junction, Kerri's primary responsibility is to oversee the operations of Commission Junction's U.S. offices located in Santa Barbara, CA; Boston, MA; San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; and Westlake Village, CA.

Ms. Pollard originally joined affiliate marketing solutions provider Be Free in 1999 prior to its acquisition by ValueClick and subsequent merger with Commission Junction in 2003. During her twelve-year tenure with Be Free and Commission Junction, she primarily managed the teams responsible for advertiser and publisher client development and introduced such initiatives as the CJ Performer™, a program that facilitates strategic relationships between top-performing publishers and key advertisers.

Prior to Commission Junction, Pollard operated in a sales capacity at consulting firm Keane, Inc., and at i-Cube (now Avenue A/Razorfish). She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the E.W. Scripps School at Ohio University.