Speakers at the Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Conference

John A. Jackson
John Jackson is a well known and highly respected expert in the field of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.  His 30 years of unparalleled experience includes running all aspects of IBM, HP, and Comdisco’s recovery businesses and participating in over 500 recoveries for client companies.  John personally started the consulting businesses for Chi/Cor in the early 1980s, and for Comdisco in 1985, before running all aspects of Comdisco’s highly regarded I.T. services business through 2001. An accomplished speaker, in command of an excellent written and oral communications style, both internally and externally, with all levels of staff, media, industry and customer personnel. John is on the Executive Advisory Board of Disaster Recovery Journal, the Board of Public and Private Businesses Inc., holds the title of President of DePaul University’s Business and Technology Alumni Network and is a Certified Community Response Team (CERT) member in the Chicago area.

W. Curtis Preston
W. Curtis Preston authored "Using SANs and NAS" and "Unix Backup and Recovery," the seminal O'Reilly book on backup and “The Security Handbook”. He has been designing storage systems for more than 10 years and has designed systems for environments ranging from backup systems for small businesses to enterprise storage systems for Fortune 100 companies. His passion for backup and recovery began with managing the data growth of a 24x7, mission-critical environment running nine versions of UNIX, three databases and 250 servers.   Since that time, Preston has been able to help many companies design resilient storage systems, and his client list includes many Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies.  Widely recognized as the thought leader in the field of backup and the former President and CEO of the Storage Group, Curtis Preston joined GlassHouse in July 2004.  W. Curtis Preston is the Vice President of Data Protection for GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.

Joe Vetrano
Joe Vetrano is an IT executive and consultant. His background includes positions as the CIO at Johnson Wax Professional, VP of Planning at Exelon Energy, VP at Cosi and Flagstar Restaurants, and a Director at Burger King.  He also was a management consultant at Coopers & Lybrand where he worked on IT strategies with senior management in healthcare, credit card, telephone, travel, and restaurant companies. Joe is often sought to spearhead the use of technology to generate revenues.  At Burger King, revenue gains of $75 million were attributed to systems he designed and implemented. Moreover, Joe uses a business approach to rationalizing IT investments that has saved more than $50 million of operating capital. As a management and operating committee member has held lead roles in acquisitions, mergers, ventures, and reorganizations, with responsibilities in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, India, and Mexico.  Joe actively consults and speaks on sales development, CIO issues, outsourcing, and business recovery.  He has groundbreaking experience in outsourcing and has written an article that is recommended reading on the subject. While at Burger King, he was a key leader in business recovery after the company’s headquarters were destroyed by Hurricane Andrew.