Ryan Bagnulo, Vice President, Head of Software Architecture & Design, Corporate and Investment Banking Technology, Wachovia
Ryan Bagnulo has been in the IT industry for 14 years.  For the past year Ryan has been the lead SOA Enterprise Application Architect, Utility Computing and Security IT Architect for the technology division of Wachovia Corporate and Investment Banking.  Ryan is focused on building mass-customized and rapidly consumable, secure, highly performant and best of breed virtualized server runtime solutions, that integrate high performance computing grids of compute resources with thin and thick clients, rich internet application (RIA) environments via the CIB Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Mediation Framework of services.

Ryan works for the CTO of Wachovia CIBT, and is focused on building solutions that are consumed by each CIB business line, including Global Capital Markets (e.g. Equities, FX, Structured Products, Credit Lending, Vertical Mortgage Integration), CIB International (e.g. LoCs, DDA, IFTs/SWIFT), Credit Risk and Treasury Services business lines. Prior to joining Wachovia Ryan was the chief security and infrastructure architect for the Business Transformation Outsourcing division of IBM Global Services, and was the leader of the IBM Global Services Grid Computing Community of Practice.  View Ryan Bagnulo's profile on LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanbagnulo

Jonathan Koomey, Project Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Consulting Professor, Stanford University
Jonathan Koomey is a Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. Dr. Koomey is one of the leading international experts on electricity used by computers, office equipment, and data centers, and is the author or co-author of eight books and more than one hundred and fifty articles and reports on energy and environmental economics, technology, forecasting, and policy.  He has also published extensively on critical thinking skills. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley, and an A.B. in History of Science from Harvard University. In 1993 he won the Fred Burgraff Award for Excellence in Transportation Research from the National Research Council's Transportation Research Board.   He was named an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in 2004 and an AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellow in January 2005. He has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, Science, Science News, American Scientist, Dow Jones News Wires, and the Christian Science Monitor, and has appeared on Nova/Frontline, BBC radio, CNBC, All Things Considered, Marketplace, On the Media, Tech Nation, and the California Report, among others. His latest solo book is Turning Numbers into Knowledge:  Mastering the Art of Problem Solving <http://www.analyticspress.com>, now in its third printing (and recently translated into Chinese). For more biographical details and a complete publications list, go to <http://www.koomey.com>.

Donald J. Rippert, Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director, Technology, Accenture
As Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director of Technology, Don Rippert is responsible for Accenture’s Technology Consulting organization, Accenture Information Management Services, Accenture Technology Labs and Global Technology Alliances.  In his CTO role, Don leads Accenture’s technology vision and strategy  that identifies and incubates emerging technologies and technology-related businesses with relevance to Accenture.  

Mr. Rippert is proud to have spent his entire, 25 year professional career working for Accenture. Mr. Rippert graduated from the University of Virginia in 1981.  He resides in Northern Virginia with his family.

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