Stephen M. Walker II, Managing Director. As Managing Director of Colborn Morrison, Stephen focuses on addressing the most pressing and fiscally-relevant business and technology issues, challenges, and opportunities confronting organizations in today's turbulent global market through surveying, extensively discussing with, and advising thousands of executives, directors, and managers across all industries and geographies that are using, implementing, or evaluating business optimization solutions. Stephen's business strategy, advisory, and project-based consulting services help ensure the successful execution of his clients mission-critical initiatives by combining targeted data and business-focused expert research, analysis and insights with extensive industry, media & publication, and end-user connections and comprehensive market segment coverage.

About Colborn Morrison

Colborn Morrison is a boutique business strategy, advisory, and project-based consulting services firm. Working closely with key Business and IT stakeholders throughout the organizational structure, Colborn Morrison uniquely tailors its range of business strategy, advisory, and project-based services to help its clients continuously advance their mission-critical initiatives by successfully bridging the gap between strategic planning and tactical execution. To learn more about Colborn Morrison please contact us using the information below.

Colborn Morrison LLC

41 Skipwith Green Cir.

Richmond, VA 23294

Phone: 804.303.5415

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Brandon Dunlap is the Managing Director of research at Brightfly. He has more than 15 years of experience managing business technology risk in large and small organizations. He has served in a variety of roles across heavily regulated industries, successfully leading all aspects of IT security programs, including policy and procedure management, oversight and control, strategy, architecture, development, and training. Currently, he is the Managing Director of Research of Brightfly, an independent, advisory and research firm that focuses on building a collaborative IT practitioner communities and bridging the gaps within information technology, security, risk, compliance, and audit disciplines.

Using Brightfly's research for real-world applications, Brandon helped develop Policy Manager, a tool for automating IT policy development, compliance and tracking, which is now part of the Symantec Control Compliance Suite. Brandon has also served as a Symantec Senior Product Manager and as the head of the Information Protection Unit at Constellation Energy. In his role at Brightfly, he uses his unique background to guide the firm's research agenda and cultivate the community involvement. Additionally, he develops and delivers curriculum on key security and compliance topics for leading professional associations.

Brandon's broad presentation history, charismatic speaking style, credible experience, and vendor-neutral perspective have made him a popular presenter at technical and business-focused events In addition to headlining Brightfly events, he has recently addressed professionals at international gatherings and regional events of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and ISACA, as well as the Institute for Applied Network Security (IANS), the ASIS International, and other events. Brandon has been quoted and profiled in major industry publications, including CSO Online, Information Security Magazine, Dark Reading, and TechTarget's SearchSecurity.

Michael Osterman is the principal of Osterman Research, Inc., founded in 2001. Since that time, the company has become one of the leading analyst firms in the messaging and collaboration space, providing research, analysis, white papers and other services to companies like Microsoft, IBM, Google, EMC, Symantec, Hewlett Packard and many others.  

Prior to founding Osterman Research, Michael was the Vice President of Market Research at Creative Networks, a leading market research and consulting firm focused on the messaging and directory markets. Michael has also held positions with the SRI International Business Intelligence Center, Ryan Hankin Kent, ElectroniCast and Gnostic Concepts. His background includes research and analysis of various markets, including computer-aided software engineering, data communications, telecommunications, and fiber optic components.

Michael is a frequent speaker at industry and vendor-sponsored events on the topics of archiving, messaging and Web security, instant messaging, presence and other messaging- and collaboration-focused issues. He is also the author of a weekly column on messaging, Web and collaboration issues for Messaging Wire.

Osterman Research Background
Osterman Research help vendors, IT departments and other organizations make better decisions through the acquisition and application of relevant, accurate and timely data on markets, market trends, products and technologies. We also help vendors of technology-oriented products and services to understand the needs of their current and prospective customers.

Osterman Research provides timely and accurate international market research, cost data, cost models, benchmarking information and other services to technology-based companies. We do this by continually gathering information from IT decision-makers and end-users of information technology. We analyze and report this information to help companies develop and improve the products and services they offer to these markets or to internal customers.

Osterman Research has developed numerous cost models that compare and contrast the cost of various messaging solutions, including hosted/managed versus on-premise solutions.

Among the things that make Osterman Research unique is our market research panel: a large and growing group of IT professionals and end-users around the world with whom we conduct our research surveys. This allows us to conduct surveys quickly and accurately with very high response rates. We are continually developing our panel of IT professionals and end-users into one of the leading sources of information for companies that offer products and services in the IT space.

More information is available at http://www.ostermanresearch.com/

Mark Diamond is the President and CEO, Contoural, Inc. He is one of the industry thought leaders in email archiving, litigation readiness, compliance, data protection and ILM strategies and practices. As CEO of Contoural, his company helps numerous Fortune 500 companies develop and execute email and document retention policies. A frequent industry speaker, Mr. Diamond addresses how organizations can better align business requirements with IT and storage spending. An expert in the business drivers around archival and the technical strategies for implementing them, he addresses what are the emerging best practices, and outlines practical approaches for email and electronic document archival that reduce liability, lower costs and ensure compliance.

Mark is founder, President & CEO of Contoural, Inc., a provider of business and technology consulting services. Under his leadership, Contoural has grown to be the industry leader in developing business and technology strategies for data retention policies and information archiving. Providing innovative approaches, these strategies help simplify complex issues, ensure compliance, reduce risks and lower costs.

One of the pioneers in the strategic storage services industry, Mark has successfully built and grown consulting, education and support organizations from inception to large, worldwide organizations numerous times. Previously, Mark was co-founder of Symantec's (OpenVision) Professional Services group. Additionally, Mark was founder and General Manager, Worldwide Professional Services for Legato Systems, a supplier of storage software. Mark grew Legato's worldwide services business into the industry leader.

Mark was founder and Principal of Smith, Diamond and Associates, a management consulting firm. Additionally he was Vice President of Worldwide Professional Services at RightWorks, a provider of business application software to the B2B marketplace. Mark has also held positions in direct and OEM sales, strategic marketing and product development. He recently served as Chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association customer advisory board on data security. Further, Mark sits on board of advisors for high technology companies.

Mark is a frequent industry speaker, addressing storage, backup, data classification on the best practices for managing storage.

He has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego. Mark is former President of the UC San Diego Alumni Association, and a Trustee of the university's foundation.

Michael Rasmussen is the President of Corporate Integrity, LLC. He is the authority in understanding Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC).  He is a sought-after keynote speaker, author, and collaborator on GRC issues around the world and is noted for being the first analyst to define and model the GRC market for technology and professional services. With more than 15 years of experience, Michael's objective is to assist organizations in defining GRC processes that are sustainable, consistent, efficient, and transparent. His thought leadership is tuned to:

• Educate GRC professionals within corporations to identify, understand, and analyze GRC strategies, drivers, trends, and best practices;
  
• Assist technology providers with alignment of their product and marketing strategies to the needs and requirements of GRC professionals;
  
• Collaborate with professional services firms on their portfolio of GRC service offerings to better equip them to serve their respective clients.

A leader in understanding risk and compliance standards, frameworks, regulations, and legislation, Michael aims to improve corporate integrity through advancing GRC initiatives. He has served in leading roles in public policy contributions to US Congressional reports and committees, and currently serves on the Leadership Council and Steering Committee of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group. Michael has been quoted extensively in the press and is respected for his commentary on broadcast news channels. In June 2007, Treasury & Risk recognized Michael as one of the 100 most influential people in finance with specific accolades noting his work in "Governance and Compliance: Saving the Planet and the Corporation."

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