About Eugene Kuznetsov
Eugene Kuznetsov is noted as the pioneer in the SOA appliance category and a recognized leader within the XML, Web services and SOA industries. With an innovative vision for the next generation of intelligent network equipment (XML-aware networking or XAN) to secure, rationalize, accelerate and integrate applications, Mr. Kuznetsov was the founder of DataPower in 1999 where he served for three years as president and CTO then as chairman and CTO until IBM's acquisition of DataPower in October 2005. In recognition of his XAN vision and leadership, Mr. Kuznetsov was named one of the "Top 25 Most Influential CTOs" for 2005. Prior to DataPower Mr. Kuznetsov consulted for numerous companies including Microsoft on a variety of projects in the areas of memory management, power electronics, JIT compilers, optimized execution engines and application integration. Eugene is a well-regarded speaker appearing at numerous conferences and events including Digital ID World, JAVAOne, NetSec, NATO C3 Agency, HPWorld, CIO Council XML.gov Working Group, Web Services DevCon, MITRE XML Day, NECINA, Web Services Edge, Gartner's Application Integration and Web Services Summit, the IT Security & Privacy Conference, and ITTC 2004. Mr. Kuznetsov holds a BSEE from MIT.