Juan Carlos Soto

Who is Juan Carlos Soto?

Juan Carlos Soto leads Market Development at Sun and isfocused on

driving the adoption of Sun products and technologies by ISVand IHV

partners and new customers including startups. In his previousrole, Mr.

Soto led the Market Development Engineering, AdvancedDevelopment, and

user Experience Engineering organizations where heoversaw a range of

technical and operational activities includingproduct development,

advanced development programs, SW strategy andbest practices, user

interface design, and partner engineering. Mr.Soto was a recipient of

the 2004 Sun Microsystems Leadership Award andselected for the 2005 Sun

Microsystems Leadership Institute. During his tenure at

Sun, Mr. Soto has held a number oftechnical and business positions

including Software CTO and VicePresident of SW Lifecycle Engineering;

Sr. Director of MarketDevelopment Engineering; Director of Software CTO

Office and AdvancedDevelopment; Group Marketing Manager and Open Source

Community Managerfor Project JXTA; Sr. Business Development Manager of

Java Software;and Sr. Engineering Manager of Java and Consumer Software. Prior

to joining Sun in 1997, Mr. Soto was Director of ProductDevelopment at

Diba, Inc., a pioneer in the development of InformationAppliances which

was acquired by Sun. Prior to Diba, Mr. Soto heldvarious positions in

engineering and marketing management at severalHewlett-Packard

Instrumentation divisions (now part of Agilent) andComputer divisions.

Mr. Soto was a recipient of Hewlett-Packard'sEngineering Fellowship

Award. Mr. Soto holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from

theUniversity of Florida, an M.S. in Computer Science from the

Universityof Colorado, and an M.S. in Engineering Management from

Stanford University.