The Thought Leadership Council is composed of individuals who are industry experts in a variety of strategic areas that impact IT organizations and their business customers. They have developed articles and white papers on industry best practices related to Business Service Management, ITIL, Sarbanes-Oxley and other topics of interest, and they present this information at industry conferences and seminars. Learn more about our thought leaders and their areas of expertise. Thought Leader Areas of Expertise Peter Armstrong Corporate Strategist Business Service Management ITIL Kia Behnia CTO for Change and Configuration Management Solutions Change and Configuration Management Strategies and Trends Data Center Optimization Configuration Management Database Tom Bishop Chief Technology Officer IT Issues and Trends Configuration Management Database Business Service Management Ralph Crosby Chief Technology Officer, Mainframe Service Management Business Unit Mainframes Stephen Davito Director of Consulting Services IT Service Management Business Process Optimization Organizational Change Management Paul Farr Senior Director, Solutions Marketing Application Development Optimization Israel Gat Vice President, Infrastructure Management Performance Management Jim Grant Vice President and General Manager of the BMC Service Management Business Unit   Business Service Management David Greene Vice President, Solutions Marketing Compliance whurley (William Hurley) Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy Open Source   Fred Johannessen Vice President and Program Executive, Capacity Management and Provisioning Virtualization Eldad Maniv Vice President of Product Management Application Development Optimization Doug Mueller CTO for the Service Management Business Unit Configuration Management Database Service Desk Alisa Nessler Vice President, Enterprise Systems Management Business Unit Customer Support Customer Support Mary Nugent Vice President, Software Consulting The Service Model IT Business Processes Bronna Shapiro Director of Solutions Marketing for Infrastructure and Application Management and Mainframe Solutions Mainframes Security Cindy Sterling Program Executive for Compliance Compliance Ken Turbitt Best Practices Director ITIL Herb VanHook Vice President of Business Planning Issues and Trends in IT Management Atwell Williams Solutions Architect, Office of the CTO at BMC Software Business Service Management Metrics and Measurements ITIL

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