Speakers at the e-Mail Archiving Conference

Gary Cooke

Gary Cooke  is Specialist for CommVault Archive Center of Excellence. Mr. Cooke’s background consists of over 20 years of experience in Information Technology.  Much of his career was spent as Manager for a large Financial Services/Insurance corporation, where he was responsible for its messaging infrastructure and support for 30,000 North American employees.  He worked closely with the Corporate Legal, Human Resources, and Internal Audit teams regarding E-Discovery and litigation readiness related issues.  Mr. Cooke joined CommVault most recently from EMC Corporation. At EMC, he was an Archiving Specialist responsible for all pre-sales activities around the EmailXtender archiving product.  At CommVault, he works directly with customers to develop cross-functional teams and processes to support litigation and FRCP related challenges.

Ron Ferris

Ron Ferris is the Vice President of Professional Services for AXS-One, a leading provider of high performance archiving and electronic records management software solution.  In this role, Ron works with AXS-One customers throughout the world to help them define and implement appropriate strategies for archiving and electronic records management that address their operational, regulatory, compliance, governance and legal discovery needs. Over the past 11 years, Ron has gained extensive expertise implementing the AXS-One Compliance Platform™ for organizations with heterogeneous environments and complex business requirements.  He is highly regarded by AXS-One’s customers for his focus on their individual business and technology requirements as well as his expertise in developing implementation methodologies that ensure fast customer referenceability.  Prior to joining AXS-One, Ron spent 20 years working in the Refining and Petrochemical industry in various management positions. Mr. Ferris graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering.

David McAllister
David McAlister is a 17 year veteran of the IT industry and is currently responsible for all of ArcMail’s business in the Central US. A graduate of the University of Memphis, David is responsible for all end user engagements, reseller recruitment, trade show appearances, and sales growth in our Central US region. David spent the first 11 years of his career in reseller sales with various national VARs, then spent 5 years with channel development specialist Marketlink, and joined the ArcMail Technology team in 2007.

Barry Murphy, a widely renowned and distinguished archiving, eDiscovery, and records management industry luminary, joined Mimosa Systems, Inc. as director of product marketing. An industry pundit who has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and CNBC, Murphy is perhaps best known for his tenure as a senior analyst for Forrester's Information Delivery research group. While at Forrester, he provided pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology, including Fortune 500 CIOs, to earn him a prominent reputation in the industry. Prior to Forrester Research, Murphy was an analyst with the Delphi Group where he covered content management, business process management and web services. Murphy has also been a regular presenter at key industry events including the Forrester IT Forum, AIIM Conference and Expo, ARMA Conference, and LegalTech. Murphy received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.

Charlie Schloff
Charlie Schloff is a Senior IT and Continuous Improvement Executive.  He has extensive experience in international, automotive, manufacturing, and food industries.  Through the years, Charlie has provided technology leadership in a variety of key corporate initiatives including IT Governance, PMO, Global Change Management, Acquisition and Business Integration, Business Process Reengineering, Sarbanes-Oxley to name a few.  He has held virtually every job in IT from Application Programmer, DBA, Network and Systems Architect, Systems Integrator, Project Manager, IT Strategist, to his current role where he heads up the IT organization at a global manufacturing company headquartered in Rockford Illinois.  Mr. Schloff holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan; an MBA from the University of Detroit; he holds several IT certifications and is a Master Black Belt in Six Sigma.  In addition to his current responsibilities, Charlie provides advisory board consulting and is involved in several community service activities.

Anna Shaw
Anna Shaw has been working in the email space since 1989 for companies in the banking, insurance and manufacturing industries.  She is an IBM  Certified System Administrator for Lotus Notes and Domino 5 & 7, but has worked on different email platforms over the years including Microsoft and Novell.   Recently, she has worked on two major projects to implement Email Archiving solutions to meet SEC, NASD, SOX and FDA requirements for two different companies using EMC's Email Xtender.

Charles Swanger

Charles Swanger is Principal System Engineer and Archiving and e-Discovery Specialist at Symantec.