Keynote Biography
Paul Strong
Distinguished Research Scientist, eBay, Inc.

Paul Strong is a distinguished research scientist at eBay Research Labs. He is focused on enterprise grid architectures and technologies, and is driving the long term vision and strategy for eBay’s infrastructure within that context. Prior to joining eBay, Strong was a systems architect at Sun Microsystems where he focused on grid standards and the N1 product set. He was part of the original N1 team, and co-authored the book Building N1 Grid Solutions (Prentice Hall, 2004). Strong was chair of the Enterprise Grid Alliance technical steering committee and its reference model working group, where he edited/co-authored the EGA Reference Model. He holds a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Manchester, England.


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