Gary Oliver brings an important combination of management experience
to Blazent, both as a successful software leader, and as a senior level
IT executive. This first hand experience allows him to clearly
understand the business needs of today's IT executive, and to then to
manage the delivery of solutions to directly meet those needs.
Gary
joins Blazent from Peregrine Systems, where he was Vice President and
General Manager of the Infrastructure Management Business Unit,
responsible for Peregrine's application solutions. These solutions were
installed in over 92% of the Fortune 500. Prior to Peregrine, Gary
served as Vice President and General Manager of the IT Service
Management business at Remedy Corporation, with over 10,000 customers
worldwide.
Prior to Remedy, Gary was Sr. Vice
President at Visa International, responsible for the company's internal
technology environment. In this role he established the important
balance of running IT as a business while delivering high levels of
service and speed. Prior to Visa, Gary held several marketing and sales
management positions at IBM, including the management of worldwide
sales and marketing of IBM's data management solutions.
Gary graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with a BA in Economics.
