Brian Paine is currently the Director of Information Technology for Western Precooling in Fremont, California. He is responsible in overseeing all IT Operations and for driving the company's current infrastructure initiatives via virtualization, application delivery, and cloud transformation. He is the site editor and contributor of The Cult of SMB (www.thecultofsmb.com) and a regular contributor at Point2Security (www.point2security.com). His background consists of 14 years of IT Management experience in various industries that include Retail (Nordstrom), Live Music and Entertainment (Live Nation \ Bill Graham Presents), Financial Services (Charles Schwab), and VAR Consulting and Managed Services (Entisys). Currently he is on the Customer Advisory Board for Citrix's global reference community "The Connection". He was a Guest Panel Speaker at the Microsoft Internal Global Executive Leadership Development Summit in the Small Medium Business Customer Insight Session in 2011 and was 1 of 6 Citrix customers chosen to be on the Citrix Synergy 2012 Call For Topics Review Panel. He has also participated in various Case Studies, Press Releases, and Interviews with major software and hardware vendors.