Jean Staten Healy manages a marketing and business development organization with the responsibility for IBM Linux strategy across all company brands. In this role she coordinates the cross-company strategy for Linux including the achievement of revenue goals, ensures rapid response to changes in the market environment and acts as the IBM spokesperson in the Linux space. Prior to her current position, Ms. Staten Healy was the Director of Marketing Strategy in the IBM Software Group, Director of Business Development and Regulatory Affairs in the IBM Systems and Technology Group, Director of Innovation Initiatives at IBM Corporate Headquarters, and the IBM Customer Advocate in the Office of the Chairman and CEO. In addition, she has held management positions in the IBM Global Services Group. Ms. Staten Healy has lived and worked in Asia. She holds a M.A. degree in theoretical linguistics and a J.D. with a certificate of concentration in International Law. Ms. Staten Healy is licensed to practice law in the States of New York and Connecticut and is a published author on various legal topics.

Michael Cerny has over 20 years of experience in various sales and marketing functions at IBM, including various management and executive positions in the last years. Most of this experience is around the "x86 marketspace" in which he worked most of his career for IBM so far. This includes bottom line management, sales management in all segments including Sectors, SMB, IBM.com and Channel as well as building up new structures and concepts for IBM.

In January 2004 Michael joined IBM Global Services (IGS) to expand his skill base into services and started first working until October 2004 as the Workplace Services Executive in IGS central region reporting to the regional IGS GM. He then assumed the role of the Integrated Technology Services (ITS) Sales & Consulting Executive in IGS Central Region reporting to the regional ITS VP. Main responsibilities included the signings and revenue objectives for Infrastructure technology services in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. At that time IBM decided to move to a sector based go to market organization in Global services, which was announced in February 2005. In this new organization Michael became Industrial sector Executive Central Region and was responsible for the total global services business including outsourcing for the automotive, chemical & petroleum, electronic & engineering and aerospace & defense industry.

In February 2006 IBM Global Technology Services (GTS – now being the technology infrastructure part of IGS) moved back to a line of business model (LOB) model and in this organizational change Michael was promoted to the position of the ITS Sales Vice President for Germany. In this position he is responsible for signings and revenue growth in infrastructure project services in Germany.

Since January 2009 Michael is responsible as Vice President System X Sales for the System X Server business in Systems & Technology Group within Northeast Europe which comprises Germany, UK & Ireland, Switzerland & Austria and the Nordics.

Hans Picht works for the IBM Linux Technology Center in Boeblingen, Germany. He installed his first Linux System back in 1995 from a large stack of floppy disks. Afterwards he worked for nearly 10 years as a Linux Trainer and Consultant across EMEA while running his own company. By accident he came in contact with IBM. Being fascinated by virtualization technologies he decided to learn more about this and joined IBM to work with a hardware platform which invented virtualization back in the 1970s. Hans worked on all layers of the "Linux stack" from Kernel Development to Sales and spends most of his time currently working with clients, IBM teams and business partners around the globe.

Charlotte is a senior marketer with extensive experience across all marketing disciplines and multiple divisions of IBM. Since June 2010 she has been responsible for IBM's marketing with external partners in NE Europe. Charlotte and her country based teams drive the local execution of IBM's strategy to bring the totality of the company to its partners and make it simpler for them to conduct business with IBM and their clients. The scope of channel marketing includes market and competitive intelligence, business planning, implementation of channel related programs and tools and development of opportunity pipeline through IBM's partner eco-system. Charlotte's previous marketing roles have included Systems and Technology Group in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa as well as NE Europe, IBM Global Services in UK and Europe and Industrial Sector. She started her career in a technical capacity specialising in networking, large and mid-range systems and latterly manufacturing and engineering solutions.