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Jean Paul Ballerini

Jean Paul Ballerini is member of the WW Security Sales Enablement Team since January 2010. 2009 he was Technical Sales Lead for IBM’s South West Europe region after having covered the role Senior Technology Solutions Expert for
IBM Internet Security Systems for the previous six years. Since 2003, Ballerini also serves as the EMEA spokesperson for the X-Force, IBM ISS’
security research and development team, where he attends numerous conferences and forums across Europe.
Ballerini continues to broaden his international experience and honing expertise by training product-independent courses such “Ethical Hacking” and
“Advanced Intrusion Detection and Forensics”. Thanks to his expertise and knowledge he is a point of reference for his colleagues who involve him when there are critical or strategic customers to deal with.
In April 2000, Ballerini joined Internet Security Systems in Zurich where he worked as a Pre-Sales Engineer until 2002. During this period he focused on the client base of the Swiss and Austrian region gaining valuable experience in the banking, insurance and telecommunication sectors. He soon became a product trainer not only for his region of competence but in support of the EMEA education team.
Prior to joining Internet Security Systems, Ballerini worked at Eurospider Information Technology as project manager and lead developer. Here his main
focus was the development of multilingual search engines and special projects for the development of information retrieval in OCR-ed documents.
Dr Jean Paul Ballerini holds a PhD in Computer Science and Law. He worked as a research assistant at Modena University and at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. In 2005 Ballerini became a CISSP, from 2007 has also become a Qualified Security Assessor for the Payment Card Industry. In June 2008 he was appointed an IBM certified Senior Technical Staff Member.