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October 1st, 2009
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Stephen DeWitt key note session
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Matt Murphy Keynote Session
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October 1st, 2009

Speakers



StephenDeWitt
Stephen DeWitt
Senior Vice President
Personal Systems Group
Americas Region
HP

Stephen DeWitt leads HP's Personal Systems Group, Americas, which encompasses the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. In this role, Stephen manages the P&L for both the commercial and consumer business and is responsible for driving marketing, sales, and operations to achieve company revenue and profit goals, while ensuring a superior customer experience. In addition, Stephen oversees the Americas Solutions Partners Organization (Channel) for the corporation.
DeWitt joined HP in 2008 in his current position. Prior to joining HP, he served as the President and CEO of Azul Systems, an award-winning, privately-held, systems company which pioneered a new model for bringing processing power and memory to highly sophisticated, high-transactional applications deployed in enterprise markets. Stephen also served as the company's Chairman. During his more than 20 years in the technology industry, Stephen has served on the executive management teams of Symantec Corporation, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems as well as leading the development of multiple start-ups including both Azul Systems and Cobalt Networks. At Cobalt, Stephen served as the company's President and CEO and led the company from its earliest stages through rapid growth, an IPO, and subsequent merger with Sun Microsystems. Stephen has a dynamic reputation and a deep track record in building high performance sales, marketing, research and development, and global operations teams. He has served as a Director or Advisor for numerous early stage technology companies and is actively involved in many entrepreneurial forums and associations.
DeWitt holds a bachelor's degree in finance and economics from Babson College - Wellesley, Massachusetts and lives in the San Francisco bay area.



Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy
Partner
KLEINER PERKINS
CAUFIELD & BYERS

Matt Murphy is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; he joined in 1999. Matt manages the iFund at KPCB, a collaborative initiative with Apple and the iPhone platform, which focuses on defining applications for the mobile internet. His expertise is in network communications, compute infrastructure, and mobile applications. Matt is either a Director or works closely with the management teams of AutoNavi, Booyah!, GOGII, Pelago, Movius, Kodiak Networks, RGB Networks, Stoke, Aerohive Networks, Ocarina. Previously, Matt was a board observer at Google (from initial investment to IPO), and a Director at Peakstream (acquired by Google) and Dash Navigation (acquired by RIM).
Prior to KPCB, Matt led product management at a semiconductor start-up (Netboost acquired by Intel), worked at Sun Microsystems where he led business development for the Network Systems Group and was a Product Line Manager for networking platforms. He also worked in strategic and technical consulting for a number of years at Booz, Allen, & Hamilton and Accenture. Matt holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.