Earl Perkins has more than 28 years of information technology and security experience, including industry experience in education, energy, and utility businesses in planning, architecting, designing, engineering, managing, and operating local-area, wide-area, and Internet-based networks and developing and delivering applications for them. He has been recognized for achievements in designing, deploying, and securing systems, applications, voice and data networks for three corporations (two U.S.-based and one international), managing IT restructurings in the utility and energy industries. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Perkins held director positions at Microsoft in market research and vice president/senior director positions in IT research firm META Group, where he was part of Security & Risk Strategies and Global Network Strategies practices respectively. He also held IT management and technical roles for Entergy Corporation, an electric utility based in New Orleans, Louisiana, and senior manager positions at London Energy in London, England.

Andrew Brown has more than ten years of experience in developing and marketing enterprise security solutions. In his role as AmberPoint’s Director of Product Strategy, he works closely with AmberPoint’s hundreds of enterprise customers and helps set the company’s product roadmap for SOA security solutions. Prior to AmberPoint, Andrew was a co-founder and Director of Strategic Marketing at Nanobiz, who built the industry’s first Web services development platform. Andrew went on to serve as Evangelist for the XML Web Services Security initiative at VeriSign, where he drove the development of offerings for application security. Andrew has also been a part of several security-related startups, has participated in industry standards groups, such as WS-I, and was a member of the Java Commerce group at Sun.