Barry Ballard is Quantum's senior systems engineer for Australia and New Zealand. He has nearly 20 years of sales, management and engineering experience with organisations such as Thomson Healthcare and Geographic Information Technology.

Adrian De Luca is Hitachi Data Systems' Regional Director, Software Solutions, a role that sees him assist customers and partners design and implement innovative storage solutions. Formally, Adrian De Luca has held positions in the Systems Engineering group at Hitachi Data Systems, a content management Technical Consultant at BroadVision Inc and numerous Software Engineering positions at various enterprise software vendors.

Clive is Vice Chairman of SNIA-ANZ and National Product Marketing Director of EMC. Having commenced his career with industry giant, Hewlett-Packard, Clive subsequently held a variety of senior positions in sales, marketing and services with companies including ComTech and Pyramid Technology.

Clive holds Masters degree in Business Administration as well as a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

Hamish has over 15 years IT experience in Telco and Online services and spent the last 6 years with storage vendor Network Appliance in presale systems engineering. Roles in NetApp include product specialist for South Asia and is currently technical account manager for NetApp 's largest Australian customer, Telstra. Prior to NetApp, Hamish worked for OzEmail and Telstra doing system design & integration. He holds a BE. (Elec), BSc. and an MBA.

Areas of expertise include: Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Storage Management, Online & Web Services.