Judges

Judges evaluate submissions based on a number of criteria such as difficulty of challenge, results produced, and originality, and scores are tabulated to select each category winner.

The Alliance was honored to have the participation from the following high-profile panel of judges for the 2009 Itanium Innovation Awards.

Joe B. Alexander, strategy and technology consultant; educator

Alexander is an IT industry veteran and expert in large-scale computing applications with more than 20 years of global experience in software and hardware product management and strategic planning for several product lines supporting enterprise, departmental, and high-performance computing. His experience includes 10 years in pre- and post-sales engineering with IT clients and more than five years in the Linux and open source software ecosystem for the enterprise market, including work with the Alliance, OSDL and the Linux Foundation. In addition, Alexander has spent more than 15 years training business leaders as a graduate school educator.

Anders Bjorlin, founder and business architect, Kiwok Nordic AB

Anders founded Kiwok Nordic AB in Sweden after becoming frustrated with the limitations of telemedicine to support heart patients such as himself. Kiwok has since developed the BodyKom Series™ ECG service to provide doctors and patients with a powerful tool for monitoring that frees up hospital beds and better tracks patients' heart health. Kiwok was the winner of the 2009 Itanium Innovation Award for "Humanitarian Impact."

Colin Butcher, founder & president, XDelta Limited

XDelta is an independent consulting organisation that specialises in designing and implementing mission-critical and disaster-tolerant systems, typically acting as design authority and technical architect on behalf of large organisations. The company was founded by in 1996 by Colin Butcher and works across a wide range of industries, such as finance, telecommunications, energy, aerospace and healthcare. Colin is a well-known presenter of both technical and leadership seminars for various organisations, such as the BCS, the UKCMG and the world-wide HP user community (HPUG, Connect, etc.). He also writes articles for a variety of publications. XDelta received an honorable mention in the 2009 Itanium Innovation Awards for "Humanitarian Impact."

Ken Cayton, president, Systematic Market Analysis

Ken Cayton leads primary research, consulting and multi-client studies for Systematic Market Analysis. Cayton’s areas of expertise include product management, business and product strategy, product marketing and extensive market research through more than 30 years of industry experience. Prior to founding Systematic Market Analysis, Cayton was most recently with IDC as research manager in the enterprise platform group. Prior to IDC he served with Intel’s digital enterprise group for 11 years, with responsibilities including managing market research, strategic market analysis, platform marketing management, long-range planning and OEM account management, along with development and management of product roadmaps, pricing and competitive analysis.

Simeon Dimitrov, head of enterprise resources management department, Mobiltel

Simeon has received numerous accolades for his technical leadership at Mobiltel, Bulgarias's largest telecommunications provider. Mobiltel won the 2009 Itanium Innovation Award in the category of "Mission-Critical Data." Simeon has a degree from Tehnièeski universitet Varna.

Jon Erickson, editor in chief, Dr. Dobb's

Jonathan Erickson has been Dr. Dobb's editor-in-chief since 1988. Before joining Dr. Dobb’s, Jonathan was senior west-coast editor for BYTE and senior editor for Osborne/McGraw-Hill books. He is the author of ten books, ranging from graphics programming to organic gardening.

Jonathan Eunice, founder and principal IT advisor, Illuminata

Jonathan is a recognized authority on networked information technologies and their application, including system architectures, operating environments, infrastructure software, development tools, and management strategies. He has over two decades of experience as an international speaker, and an advisor to C-level executives and Fellows/Distinguished Engineers alike. Author of hundreds of research publications. Books include MVS vs. Unix: Midnight in the Garden of Open and Proprietary, Enterprise Systems Management, Unix in Transition, Unix Matures, Leaders in Object Technology. Expert witness. Degrees in Mathematics/Computer Science and Philosophy.

Thomas Gengenbach, Scientific Staff Member, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Thoomas is a scientific staff member in the Group Numerical Simulation, Optimization and High Performance Computing at KIT in Germany.His topics are Numerical High Performance Computing, Numerics of Partial Differential Equations as well as Computational Fluid Dynamics with application to medical technique. His responsibilities include the coordination ot the United Airways project (www.united-airways.eu) as well as the implementation of the Mesh module in the CFD software HiFlow³. KIT received an honorable mention in the 2009 Itanium Innovation Awards for "Humanitarian Impact."

Dr. Barry Hieb, chief scientist, Global Patent Identifiers

Dr. Hieb is chief scientist for Global Patient Identifiers Inc. Prior to that he was a research director in the Gartner Healthcare Industry Research and Advisory Service for 10 years. He is a physician with over 30 years’ experience in medical informatics. Previously, Dr. Hieb served as product planning manager for the Sunquest clinical data repository and earlier held a similar position with First Data Corporation. He also served as a chief architect of healthcare solutions in the Healthcare Marketing Group of Digital Equipment Corp. Dr. Hieb’s expertise includes the computer-based patient record as well as numerous supporting applications and technologies such as enterprise master person indexes, controlled medical vocabularies, clinical decision support systems, medical speech & natural language processing, and healthcare information architectures. Dr Hieb received his BA from Bethel College in Newton, Kansas and his Medical Degree and Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Washington University in Saint Louis.  

Sverre Jarp, chief technology officer, CERN openlab

Sverre Jarp is active in the CERN openlab, a joint collaboration with leading industrial partners in order to assess cutting-edge information technology for the Large Hadron Collider’s Computing Grid.  He has been working in computing at CERN for well over 30 years and has held various managerial and technical positions promoting advanced but cost-effective computing solutions for the Laboratory.  In 2001-02 he spent a sabbatical year in HP Labs (Palo Alto, USA). Inside openlab, his main focus is currently compilers and platform optimization as well as virtualization and Grid middleware. Jarp holds a degree in Theoretical Physics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

Dr. Rinaldo Jose, president and co-founder, Lakeway Technologies

Dr. Jose has developed software and managed software teams for more than 15 years. He has a history of leading change and building organizational momentum by translating an organization's greater goals into terms that executive, engineering and product management teams can act upon. He has led turnarounds for multiple engineering organizations and is skilled at defining and establishing processes to yield consistent and predictable execution. As the driving force behind Lakeway Frontier, Rinaldo brings business intelligence to project management. Rinaldo holds a B.S. from U.C. Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focused on optimally coordinating teams within organizations using price theory.

Christopher Knorr, executive pice president HOPS core technology, HOPS International

With more than 25 years experience in the IT industry, Chris has served in a wide variety of roles including software developer, trainer, support and pre-sales support specialist, consultant and manager/director. In his 15-year career at HOPS, Chris has touched virtually all aspects of the business, including managing client services, software engineering, application administration and data center operations. Chris currently manages the HOPS Core Technologies team, which works closely with the CTO in developing enhancements to the company's flagship database. HOPS was a finalists in the "computationally intensive applications" category in the 2009 Itanium Innovation Awards.

Kumaran Pillai, founder & chief executive officer, Protegesoft

Kumaran Pillai, a Singaporean Technopreneur, winner of several innovation awards, has been involved in more start-up projects than he would actually admit. He started his career at HP and after a short stint there realized that the world of entrepreneurship has more to offer than just a career, it's a way of life. Pillai founded Protegesoft in 2002 to provide IT professional services to Banks and Financial Institutions. In late 2004, he started developing Investment Portfolio Optimization Solutions. Protegesoft is the winner of the 2008 Itanium Innovation Award in the category of "Enterprise Business Application."

Andrew Razeghi, lecturer, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Andrew Razeghi is a professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University where he teaches coursework on innovation. He is also a best-selling author, popular speaker, and leading expert on corporate creativity and innovation. His most-recent book, THE RIDDLE: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better Ones (Jossey-Bass/Wiley) was chosen by FAST COMPANY magazine as one of its “Smart Books of the Year”.