Melanie Posey manages the research team with a focus on analyzing the evolution of enterprise IT through the lens of cloud computing and the associated transformation of IT consumption and delivery models. She also manages 451 Research's Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services offering. 
 
Prior to joining 451 Research, Melanie spent more than 15 years at IDC in a variety of roles, providing analysis, forecasting, and insight for the cloud, hosting, datacenter, managed services, and telecommunications markets. At IDC, Melanie received numerous awards for research, collaboration, sales support, and client service.
 
During her more than 20-year career in the technology research and consulting arena, she has been quoted extensively in the business and technology trade press and is a frequent speaker at industry and client events.

Al Slamecka works across Cisco organizations, Cisco partners, and directly with Cisco financial services customers to align the company’s solutions with the IT and business needs of the financial services industry. A 20-year Cisco veteran, Al previously was a Banking Practice Advisor on Cisco’s Digital Transformation team and a leader of Cisco’s Enterprise Financial Services Marketing team. 

Aric Rosenbaum helps Red Hat’s financial services clients meet their strategic priorities through the use of open source technologies. Prior to joining Red Hat, he led large technology modernization projects at Goldman Sachs’ Investment Management division and was cofounder and chief technology officer of several financial technology companies in equity and foreign exchange trading.

Dave Malik brings 20 years of financial services expertise to leading the development of solutions that accelerate security-focused interactions at cloud scale. He provides market, customer, and technical input to Cisco and key partner development engineering organizations to foster emerging technologies and innovation.

Bruno Domingues leads the Cloud Computing and Digital Edge strategy for the Financial Service Industry (FSI) at Intel and has been focused on advancing FSI cloud adoption in the last 15 years. Prior to joining Intel, he pioneered the FSI practice at Microsoft and developed a rich ecosystem of partners around the Microsoft platform. With more than 25 years of experience in applying technologies, Bruno has developed a deep understanding of the financial industry’s mojo.