Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is the founder and CEO of Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia. In his academic role, he serves as a Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering; and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has over 16 years of industrial and academic R&D experience in software systems for CAD, Internet, and high performance distributed computing applications.

Dr. Buyya has been awarded, over $3 million, competitive research grants from various national and international organisations including the Australian Research Council (ARC), Sun Microsystems, StorageTek, IBM, and Microsoft, Australian DIISR (Dept. of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research), and the European Council. He has carried out fundamental research in utility-oriented distributed computing platforms such as Grids and Clouds.

Dr. Buyya has published over 310 high quality and high impact research papers that are well referenced. The Journal of Information and Software Technology in its Jan 2009 issue, based on an analysis of ISI citations, ranked two of his journal papers among the "Top 10 Cited Software Engineering Articles in 2002". He received "Research Excellence Awards" from the University of Melbourne for productive and quality research in computer science and software engineering in 2005 and 2008. He also received the Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution 2008 from the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia.

Software technologies for Grid and Cloud computing developed under Dr. Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. He has led the establishment and development of key community activities, including co-founding of IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and four IEEE conferences (CCGrid, Cluster, Grid, and e-Science). He has presented over 200 invited talks on his vision on IT Futures and advanced computing technologies at international conferences and institutions in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. These contributions and international research leadership of Dr. Buyya are recognised through the award of "2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing". For further information on Dr. Buyya, please visit: http://www.buyya.com.

Ivan serves as a Director of Manjrasoft and is closely supporting our CEO through the early stages of building and managing the business. He was responsible for identifying and driving the Manjrasoft start up from the University of Melbourne in his role as a senior commercialisation manager in the University's specialist commercialisation company - Melbourne Ventures Pty Ltd.

Ivan brings extensive operational experience to Manjrasoft, having held senior management roles in general management, marketing, sales and channels with leading organisations in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry. He has worked with vendors, systems integrators and resellers, delivering on multi-million dollar revenue and profit targets. He has also gained extensive experience in management consulting and investment banking, where he has assisted high growth companies under capital raising and M&A mandates.

In his continuing role at Melbourne Ventures, Ivan leads technology surfacing, licensing and startup formation at the University of Melbourne in ICT and physical sciences.

Wolfgang Gentzsch is currently Dissemination Advisor for the DEISA Distributed European Initiative for Supercomputing Applications, a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Grid Forum standards organization, and a consultant to HPC, Grid, and Cloud stakeholders. Before, he was an adjunct professor of computer science at Duke University in Durham, and visiting scientist at the RENCI Renaissance Computing Institute at UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Chairman of the German D-Grid Initiative; Vice Chair of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group e-IRG; Area Director of Major Grid Projects of the Open Grid Forum Steering Group; member of the US President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, PCAST; Managing Director of the MCNC Grid and Data Center Services in North Carolina; Sun Microsystems Senior Director of Grid Computing in Menlo Park, CA; Founder, CEO and CTO of software companies Genias and Gridware (developing Grid Engine), and a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg, Germany. Wolfgang Gentzsch studied mathematics and physics at the Technical Universities in Aachen and Darmstadt, Germany.

Dr. Gentzsch’s major research interests have been in the fields of high performance computing, grand-challenge applications, numerical algorithms to solve nonlinear systems of partial differential equations, advanced computer architectures, e-infrastructures, and e-learning. He has published approximately 200 articles, papers and reports and he is author and co-author of several books. In 2002, he was awarded the Sun Chairman Award for Innovation, for his contribution to the open source Grid Engine technology and products.

Dexter Duncan is VP of Marketing & Business Development at Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia. His international career has taken him to Texas, Silicon Valley, Singapore and Sydney in global, regional and local roles. Past experience includes managing small and large teams in Marketing, Product Management and Sales Engineering at Nortel Networks including product marketing responsibility. With more than 16 years in IT including many management roles in Asia Pacific & Australia, Dexter has marketing, business development, professional services and product management experience. He received Bachelor of Science degree (Electrical Engineering) from Texas A & M University.

Karthik leads the product management initiatives for Manjrasoft Pty Ltd and is responsible for the product bundling, requirements, marketing, business partnerships, program management and IT operation. During the course of the past experience, Karthik has served as a technical product manager responsible for defining and developing products for some of the most successful global company such as Sify Technology Limited and drove the product development team for internal ERP solutions, Travel portal, Mail Messaging and Collaboration for consumer and enterprise channel and SaaS initiative over Google App and Hosted Microsoft Exchange (HMC).

During his career, Karthik has personally performed and managed most of the roles of a modern software product organization, including product management, software development, product marketing, user interface design, usability engineering, technical writing, software testing, engineering and technology management, QA and Project Management

Karthik holds a bachelor's degree in computer science engineering and dual masters in Information Technology and MBA degree from Latrobe University, Australia Karthik Sukumar can be contacted at: Karthik @ manjrasoft . com

Laurence Liew is the CEO and Founder of 1degreenorth Pte Ltd, a provider of next-generation High Performance Computing and Cloud Computing infrastructure solutions.

Prior to starting 1degreenorth, Laurence was the Director of Platform Computing in Singapore holding multiple portfolios which includes: R&D Centre Director for Platform's Open Source Grid Development Centre which is responsible for the development and overall product strategy for Platform's HPC management software, Director of Platform's Cloud Innovation Centre helping customers in Singapore and the region to be Cloud enabled, and Platform's HPCCommunity.org Community Manager - a portal for the global HPC community.

Laurence is a veteran of the open source and HPC/Grid/Cloud community and has been promoting the use of Linux/HPC/Grid/Cloud since 1998. He was involved in building the very first commercial Linux cluster for a local research institute in 1999 and has since implemented and consulted for many organizations in APJ, Europe and US, on HPC, Grid and now Cloud. Laurence also led a team from 2002- 2006 in Singapore to co-develop the San Diego's Supercomputer Centre Rocks toolkit - the world's most popular open source HPC cluster management system.

Laurence graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) with First Class Honours in Engineering, and holds a Master in Knowledge Engineering from NUS.