Speakers
Thomas Thölke - Sales Director Eastern & Nordics - Thomas is responsible for Astaro’s sales and business development in the EMEA region. His responsibilities include managing the company’s channel partner network across the region, as well as targeting and recruiting new partners to meet business objectives.
Thomas has a strong background in sales and marketing, with over a decade of work in the IT industry. He has a wealth of experience in partner management and understands what makes a good relationship between vendors and their partners. His previous companies include Nixu Oy, 3n consult and Bradford Networks.
Lutz Linzenmeier is heading the pre-sales team in EMEA. Mr. Linzenmeier and his team support the entire EMEA sales channel remotely and on-site with technical information, project management, sizing, trainings and proof of concept demos. Mr. Linzenmeier has more than a decade of experience and expertise in vital aspects of network security for complex security environments.
Gary S. Miliefsky is an American entrepreneur, founding member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, philanthropist (a founding member of the Walden Woods Project, started by musician Don Henley), and the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of NetClarity, Inc., the network security software and appliance company that he founded in 2003. Miliefsky is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the network security revolution. He is widely admired as the inventor of clientless network admission control or clientless NAC and has over a dozen patents published and pending. He frequently writes articles for SearchCIO and NetworkWorld. He served as an informal advisor to President Clinton and helped the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, under the Bush Administration, which is now known as the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) and operates within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in their development of The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. He currently serves on the National Information Security Group (www.naisg.org) Board of Directors and is a member of an Advisory Board to MITRE. (oval.mitre.org).