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Rob Pinkerton is the Director of Government Solutions for Adobe Systems where he has responsibility for Adobe’s enterprise go-to-market and solutions development strategies for global government.

Rob has 18 years experience in government and technology. He has worked in County, City, State and Federal levels of government including as an emergency medical response technician in Virginia, a law clerk in the City of Baltimore and as Legislative Council in the United States Senate during the 104th-106th Congress. Prior to joining Adobe, Rob was Vice President of Product Management for LexisNexis’s Enterprise Data Fusion Product which was developed for U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to perform complex data analysis. For 5 years, Rob worked for Siebel Systems (now part of Oracle Corp) as Director of the Global Public Sector product business where he was responsible for Siebel’s second fastest growing product line and over 200 global public sector customers using enterprise case management and CRM.

Rob has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, a law degree from the University of Baltimore, a BA in economics, political science and history from the University of Richmond and has a patent for co-inventing a system for processing intelligence information (held by Oracle). Rob lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and 2 sons.

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Since 2004, Bobby has been responsible for the global go-to-market strategies for all government solutions. As a government subject matter expert, Bobby acts as an evangelist for Government Business Transformation through technology. Based on his years of experience in designing and building collaborative systems and eLearning systems, he has developed several Government solutions focused on Business Transformation, Secure Information Sharing and Training/Collaboration.

Prior to joining Adobe, Bobby held CTO positions with Ikimbo and VCampus. With Ikimbo, Bobby pioneered concepts that put people back into previously automated business processes by integrating elements of BPM, Instant Messaging, and collaboration. When combined, these elements allowed for a more rapid response to ever changing business environments by gathering the necessary resources, (people - based on presence and availability) into an online collaboration session and providing actionable information to drive better decision making.

During his tenure with VCampus, Bobby was the vision behind one of the world’s first fully hosted eLearning environments. Bobby and his team of developers were responsible for creating an environment that was conducive to learning, teaching, engaging and creating using nothing more than early web technologies.

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As group manager, Worldwide Government Solutions, at Adobe Systems, Loni Kao Stark is responsible for defining solutions for the public sector that are based on the Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite. Loni's focus is on solutions that assist government agencies in delivering services to citizens and businesses. Loni came to Adobe in 2000. Over the past eight years, she has held responsibilities in engineering, product management, business development and product marketing.

Loni holds a Bachelor’s degree from McMaster University in computer science and liberal arts with a minor in economics. She earned a Master’s degree from Stanford University in management science and engineering. In her spare time, Loni is an avid blogger and traveler.

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