Laurent Seraphin, Borland Software Corporation

Laurent Séraphin is EMEA director of software products at Borland. He joined Borland two and a half years ago as he saw that the market for Borland's products was about to take off and wanted to be a part of the new developments. Laurent is now responsible for handling the larger strategic accounts' technology needs and for evangelizing the strengths of Borland's best-in-class technology solutions on a pan-European level. Laurent has been working in the IT sector since 1994. Originally from France, he worked in various countries for technology companies including Ardent Software on its O2 object database product line and for ILOG, the world leader in C++ and Java software components. Laurent is an experienced and charismatic speaker.