Matthew Eastwood, Group Vice President and General Manager of IDC’s Enterprise Platform Group. He leads a team of analysts responsible for identifying and analyzing vendor strategies, technology, market and customer trends affecting enterprise platforms and data centers worldwide. In this role he is responsible for managing market analysis, forecasting and consulting for servers, workstations, server & client operating environments, virtualization/cloud software, systems management software, data center trends, infrastructure channels and IT leasing and financing worldwide. Mr. Eastwood speaks frequently at IDC, industry, and customer events around the world and is frequently quoted in leading business and technology publications.
Mr. Eastwood provides in-depth market analysis, research, and consulting on key aspects of the enterprise infrastructure marketplace to both buyers and suppliers of technology. Also through his role, Mr. Eastwood has engaged end-users, technology vendors, media and trade press through speaking events in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. During his tenure at IDC, Mr. Eastwood has led IDC primary research focused on emerging trends in enterprise systems and data centers.. In particular, this primary research allows IDC to make continual assessments regarding how customers are deploying enterprise infrastructure in both on premise and off premise data centers. Recent topics covered in Mr. Eastwood’s research include: Data Center Consolidation, Virtualization, Data Center Automation, Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Mission Critical Computing, High Availability, Platform Migration, Green IT, and Data Center Workloads.
Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Eastwood worked for twelve years as a senior project manager and environment consultant at Camp Dresser & McKee (CDM) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Eastwood was responsible for managing the planning and design of large environmental infrastructure projects including wastewater collection and treatment facilities. In addition, Mr. Eastwood served as Operations Manager of the firm’s New England practice. In this capacity, he was responsible for monitoring financial performance, resource planning, and compensation on a regional basis.
Mr. Eastwood received a bachelor's degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston and earned his M.S. in Engineering Project Management from WPI in Worcester, MA. He is a registered professional engineer (PE) in Massachusetts.
Gary Barnett is senior vice president and general manager of the Engagement Solutions business unit at Avaya, the leading provider of customer and team engagement solutions. In his current role, Barnett has responsibility for Avaya's customer engagement, team engagement and mobile engagement portfolios.
Gary joined Avaya in April 2011 and prior to his current role, he led the Collaboration Platforms and UC Applications team. Gary is also a domain expert who was a founding engineer at Octel, the founder and CEO of Prospect Software, and later served as president and CEO of Aspect Communications.
As executive vice president and Chief Technology Officer at Aspect Software, Gary was responsible for corporate planning, product architecture and lifecycle management. He directed strategic partnerships and long-term product integration plans in support of enterprise-level applications.
Gary has delivered outstanding leadership and stakeholder value as either a Chief Executive Officer or Chief Technology Officer for over 20 years and is recognized worldwide as an authority on contact center technologies and solutions. In 2006, Mr. Barnett was recognized by the contact center industry with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Gary and Sharon Barnett have been married for 31 years and reside in San Jose, California, and Brentwood, Tennessee.
Joe is Vice President of Global SP/SI, Alliances and Cloud GTM at Avaya. Reporting to Joe are the Global SP/SI teams, the Global Alliances team and the Global AOS/Cloud sales teams. In his role at Avaya, Joe is driving the cloud GTM strategy through the demand creation Private Cloud AOS team, as well as the SP/SI partner lead sales motions. In addition to this team, Joe is also responsible for the relationships with all strategic Global Alliance partners.
Joe brings over 25 years experience in both the enterprise and global carrier markets, an in-depth understanding of 2-tier distribution for small/medium business, large enterprises and complex infrastructure carrier deals with long sales cycles. Joe comes to us from Actelis Networks, where he was Executive Vice President, Global Sales, Customer Support and Field Marketing.
Prior to Actelis, Joe was Managing Director, Americas International and EMEA at Adtran. While at Adtran, Joe had full responsibility for Canada, Latin America and EMEA. Previous roles include Vice President Sales, Americas for Sycamore Networks, Worldwide Vice President Sales and Business Development at Tenor Networks, and various management positions at Cisco Systems.
Jean Turgeon is currently VP Technical Solutions Marketing, Avaya responsible to developing and promoting cross portfolio solutions across all business units at Avaya. Prior his new role, JT was VP, Portfolio & Solutions Strategy responsible for all Avaya’s Enterprise data portfolio. His role consisted of providing strategic directions for R&D investment in building competitive Enterprise data solutions. He has a broad knowledge with 29 years of experience in networking designs and implementation. This knowledge ranges from various WAN, LAN and Gateway technology as well as Unified Communications, open system architecture frameworks, data center, campus and branch solutions to name a few with both global service providers and enterprise customers. Jean brings a wealth of expertise that enterprise customers and partners greatly value. Jean also has an MBA which combined with his technical background enables him to lead the Enterprise data portfolio and its future development.
Laurent Philonenko is Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development and CTO at Avaya, a leading provider of solutions that enable customer and team engagement. In this role, Laurent is responsible for the development and execution of Avaya’s short- and long-term growth and engagement strategies. As part of his focus on Avaya growth strategies, Laurent has oversight of M&A, Avaya Labs, architecture and consulting groups, as well as the Avaya DevConnect developer program and technology partnerships.
Laurent is a recognized leader and proven visionary in the enterprise collaboration and communications space. Prior to his current role, Laurent served as Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development for Avaya. Before joining Avaya, Laurent served successively as Vice-President and General Manager of several business units and as Chief Technology Officer for Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group and before joining Cisco as CEO for Genesys.
Laurent is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and earned a master’s degree in Management Science from Paris University. He holds nine U.S. patents. In his spare time, Laurent is an avid sportsman who enjoys running and biking. His other hobbies include practicing his culinary skills, flying airplanes and reading on a variety of topics.
Marc Randall is Senior Vice President & General Manager, Avaya Networking. Avaya is a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions.
In this role, Marc oversees the foundation for the data networking business with a focus on growing the networking business into a world class innovative market leader.
Marc joins Avaya from Cisco Systems, where he was most recently vice president & general manager of the Scalable Network Business Unit. Previously, Marc held senior positions including president and CEO of Force10 Networks and senior vice president at Brocade Communications.
Marc has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from DeVry University Phoenix.
Michael Runda is Senior Vice President and President, Avaya Client Services. Avaya is a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions.
Mike has an accomplished career in the technology industry that has spanned over thirty years with numerous Fortune 100 companies. In his current role, Mike leads Avaya Client Services, which includes oversight of revenue, regional execution and global offers for Avaya's holistic suite of support and managed services. Prior to this assignment, Mike was vice president of Avaya Global Support Services where he led the delivery team for maintenance services.
Before joining Avaya, Mike served as CEO of the KCS Academy, where he focused on bringing innovation around knowledge capture and effective re-use across support and services in a variety of industries. Previously, Michael led support for a variety of high tech firms as the VP of Global Support at Intuit, Symantec and Oracle. He drove innovations in processes and technology that transformed these support organizations into highly engaged employee teams that significantly improved the customer experience while dramatically increasing operational efficiency. Mike started his career in sales at IBM, and has held additional management positions in development, field support and IT in Sperry-Univac, Harris, and McKesson corporations.
He enjoys teaching and coaching, having taken a year off to teach AP computer science at a private high school in Florida, while also teaching MIS courses at night at the University of Central Florida and coaching varsity tennis and track teams at local high schools.
Mike enjoys competitive athletics, and still competes in track meets and 5K races, bicycling road races and national tennis tournaments. He is actively involved in community service, having helped build numerous homes for Habitat for Humanity, and frequently assists in trail building and other environmental volunteer activities.
