As the Carolinas/Tennessee Verizon Wireless region president, Jerry Fountain oversees the company’s sales, marketing, network operations, finance, administration, and an extensive retail footprint in South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. A 30-year veteran of the telecommunications industry, Jerry has witnessed first-hand the evolution and explosion of wireless in the US and under his leadership, helped Verizon Wireless become the largest wireless voice and 3G data network in the US.
Jerry set a solid foundation in the 1990s to make South Carolina a significant telecommunications employer and today, he manages over 4,199 employees throughout South Carolina in 60 locations, one of which is a customer care center and region headquarters in Greenville county. Jerry was also instrumental in locating a world-class interactive learning facility in Greenville for enterprise customers to experience Verizon Wireless’ newest data products and services in the company’s first Wireless Data Technology Lab. And, with 4G/LTE making a 2009 debut on Verizon Wireless’ network, Jerry is focused on all the new opportunities that will help Verizon Wireless customers Rule the Air.
Jerry Fountain speaks to the GSA Technology Council in September.
Rob Peglar is a Senior Fellow at Xiotech Corporation. A 33-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product quality and industry/customer liaison. He is the Treasurer of the SNIA, as a Board member of the Solid State Storage Initiative, served as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials and as Education Chair for the Cloud Storage Initiative. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, I/O performance, cloud storage, replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide. He was one of 25 senior executives worldwide selected for the CRN ‘Storage Superstars’ Award of 2010.
Steven Halim is an Instructor in School of Computing, National University of Singapore. NUS was placed 30th among the world’s top 200 universities – and 4th in Asia based The Times Higher Education – Quacquarelli Symonds (THE-QS) World University Rankings.
William (Bill) Brown is the Executive Director of Education Technology Services at Greenville County Schools. Greenville County Schools is the 51st largest school district in the nation with over 70,000 students and 9,000 employees and is the largest school district in South Carolina.
Jeff Crume is a Distinguished Engineer and IT Security Architect on IBM’s World Wide Service Management Tiger Team with more than 25 years’ experience in the IT industry. He is the author of a book entitled “Inside Internet Security: What Hackers Don’t Want You To Know” and has written articles on cryptography, virtual private networking and identity management. He holds CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and ISSAP (Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) security industry certifications as well as Distinguished Chief IT Architect credentials from The Open Group. Jeff lived in Beijing on assignment in 2006 where he helped architect secure infrastructures for clients in the Greater China geography. Jeff is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and serves on the NC State University Computer Science Strategic Advisory Board, the “Information Management & Computer Security” research journal editorial board and has worked with clients in nearly 40 countries across 6 continents.
Executive Director Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research
Ralph Heredia is the Vice President of business development and co-founder of Zipit Wireless, Inc., in Greenville, S.C. He is directly responsible for all aspects of product development, innovation, research, marketing and customer/partner relationships. Heredia is also the inventor of Zipit’s first & second Wireless Messenger instant messaging devices for teens and pre-teens introduced respectively in late 2004 & and 2007.
Pam Evans has responsibility for IBM Worldwide web marketing strategies, web analytics and content on Software Group customer websites in over 70 countries. A digital marketing and Globalization leader for ibm.com marketing, Ms Evans conducts workshops with sales and marketing teams on how to use the web to engage new prospects and generate leads.
John Tully, in his 35 year career has served Michelin in a variety of management positions. He began his career in New York working in the Marketing and Sales support function. He most recently served for 3 years as the President of Michelin Development (Canada) inc. in Ontario, Canada. Prior to this assignment he was the North American Director of Community Relations for Michelin North America, Inc. 
















