Speakers

	Stephen Elop President, Microsoft Business Division As president of the Microsoft Business Division, Stephen Elop oversees the Information Worker, Microsoft Business Solutions and Unified Communications Groups. This division is responsible for the Microsoft Office system of programs, servers and software-based services, Microsoft Dynamics, business applications for small and midsize businesses, large organizations and divisions of global enterprises and Microsoft’s Unified Communications, products that provide complete software-based communications tools to business. Elop joined Microsoft in January, 2008 and is a member of the company’s senior leadership team that sets overall strategy and direction for Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Elop was Chief Operating Officer for Juniper Networks, a leading provider of high-performance network infrastructure and a valued Microsoft partner. As COO, Elop was responsible for all the company’s product groups, corporate development, global sales and service and marketing and manufacturing organizations. Prior to Juniper, Elop served as president of worldwide field operations at Adobe Systems Inc., where he was responsible for Adobe’s global sales organization and all customer-facing functions. Elop joined Adobe following the 2005 acquisition of Macromedia Inc., where he was president and CEO. During his seven-year tenure at Macromedia, Elop held many senior positions, including COO, executive vice president of worldwide field operations and general manager of the company’s eBusiness division. Earlier in his career, he served in a number of executive positions, including chief information officer. Elop earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and management from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

	Ted Kummert Corporate Vice President, Data and Storage Platform Division at Microsoft Corp. As corporate vice president of the Data Storage and Platform Division at Microsoft Corp., Ted Kummert leads an integrated product team that delivers application platform products as part of the Microsoft Server and Tools Business. Kummert’s key product responsibilities include Microsoft SQL Server, the company’s solution for enterprise data management and analysis, as well as Microsoft cluster, file and systems storage technologies. Most recently, Kummert served as corporate vice president of the Security, Access and Solutions Division (SASD), an integrated product division responsible products and services including Windows Server Terminal Services, the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, Microsoft Forefront Server Security for Exchange and Microsoft Small Business Server. Before leading SASD, Kummert served as corporate vice president of the Business Process and Integration (BPI) Division, where he was responsible for Microsoft’s BPI products, including Microsoft BizTalk Server, Commerce Server and Host Integration Server. In this role, he drove business strategy and product development to address customer needs in the areas of business-to business integration, business process automation, legacy application integration and e-commerce. Prior to leading the BPI Division, Kummert was a corporate vice president in MSN, responsible for the MSN subscription businesses, including MSN Internet Access, MSN TV service and MSN software subscription offerings. In this role he was responsible for product development and business strategy, including the development of MSN 8 and MSN 9, and development of the MSN subscription platform and Microsoft’s consumer applications for personal finance and digital imaging. Since joining Microsoft in 1989, Kummert has also held various other positions in product development, starting with the Windows NT operating system, and spent several years working on operating system technology for interactive TV systems, the Windows CE operating system and numerous consumer device products. Before coming to Microsoft, Kummert worked at HP and Apple Computer Inc. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington. He lives in the Seattle area with his wife and three sons.

	Ben Stein Entertainer Ben Stein has been an award winning actor, economist, writer, journalist, and teacher; most diverse career of anyone on the national scene. He was born in Washington, D.C., the son of the noted economist and writer Herbert Stein. He received a B.A. with honors in Economics from Columbia. After graduation, he served as a poverty lawyer, a trial lawyer in the field of advertising, and a teacher about the political content of film and TV at American University, UC, Santa Cruz, and Pepperdine. He was a speech writer and lawyer for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He was a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and also wrote editorials for the Journal. In June of 1976, he moved to Hollywood to become a novelist, TV sitcom writer, and movie script writer. He has written and published 30 books, seven fiction and the rest nonfiction and screenplays which were made into movies. In 1986, with no professional training, Stein became an instant cult hero for his role as the boring economics teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which scene was recently voted one of the fifty funniest scenes in American film history. He is currently a columnist for The New York Times, a regular commentator on CBS Sunday Morning, a commentator for Yahoo! Finance, a commentator for Fox News, and a frequent contributor to CNBC. Stein lives with his beloved wife of 39 years, Alexandra Denman in Los Angeles, California.

	Kurt DelBene Senior Vice President, Office Business Platform Group As senior vice president of the Office Business Platform Group (OBP) of the Microsoft Business Division, Kurt DelBene is responsible for the development of client and server products that collectively deliver to organizations a holistic platform for collaboration, information sharing and business applications. Products in the OBP Group include Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Project Web Access and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. DelBene joined Microsoft in 1992 and has served in several roles in Microsoft’s product development teams. Prior to his current role, DelBene was vice president of Authoring and Collaboration Services, responsible for the development of Office’s document and Web-page authoring and collaboration products. He also served as the general manager of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft’s messaging and personal-informationmanagement application. He has also served as group program manager for Microsoft Exchange, responsible for the Microsoft Exchange client and Schedule+, and group manager in Microsoft’s Systems Division, responsible for fax and embedded systems software. Prior to joining Microsoft, DelBene was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company, focusing on business strategy for technology companies. He has also worked as a software developer and systems engineer for AT&T Bell Laboratories, working in graphics and imaging software and network switching systems. DelBene holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago, a Master of Science from Stanford University, and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona.