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Ryan Koop is the Director of products and marketing at Cohesive Networks. He is responsible for product development and manages teams for public relations, international events, and content marketing. His role spans the technical product development, customer support, business development and thought leadership needs of a growing company. Previously, he worked at a trading platform software company in the US Derivative Markets. Recently, Mr. Koop presented the talk ???Global WAN on the Cheap at LASCON in Austin, Texas. He also presented and lead the Chicago Ideas Week Lab for Cohesive, titled "Get Started in Public Cloud" He previously spoke at the IBM Cloud Hour at Impact 2011.

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