Vivit Chicago Chapter Webinar with HPE Guest Presenters on the Micro Focus Merger

Webinar

Agenda

• Micro Focus and HPE Merger Discussion
• Q&A
• What is Vivit and how can I leverage this resource?
• HPE AppPulse demo

Tony Sumpster
Senior Vice President IT Operations Management
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• Senior Vice President of the HPE software IT Operations Management business, which encompasses Cloud and Automation, Business Service Management, and Service and Portfolio Management
• Is known as a leader who strategically grows the business, maximizes customer value, and builds a culture of success
• Previously was Vice President and General Manager of HPE Software’s Service and Portfolio Management business, encompassing both on-premise software and Software-as-a-Service management offerings
• His team and he have helped countless IT organizations transition from being a technology provider to becoming a strategic service provider to the business
• Served as Vice President and General Manager of the HPE Software-as-a-Service organization
• Was responsible for the vision, strategy, innovation, and revenue growth, and successfully grew HPE’s SaaS business in excess of 30 percent per annum
• Served as Vice President, Partner Strategy and Field Operations
• Joined HPE in 2008 via the acquisition of TOWER Software where he was Executive Vice President of EMEA and AMS
• Grew the EMEA business by 24x over four years
• Held senior management roles at Datawatch International Limited, Perot Systems, Moai Technologies Limited, and StorageTek
• Located in Sunnyvale, California

Genefa Murphy
Vice President, Product and Program Marketing
Application Delivery Management
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• Strategist and out-of-the-box thinker with expertise in delivering software solutions that help customers deal with changes brought about by the consumerization of IT
  
• Experience covers product management, marketing, analytics and UX including digital strategy
• Recognized for her work in technology adoption and won awards for her work in online User Experience

Mihai Grigorescu
Vivit TQA SIG Leader
Accenture High Velocity Application Development Lead
Accenture

• Global HPE Practice (Alliance) Testing Lead, working across all industries and geographies
• +8 years testing services industry (Application Services)
• +3 years delivery experience in large-scale IT programs, focused on TCoEs - Testing Centers of Excellence
• SME Subject Matter Expert and international speaker for Software Testing and testing Tools
• HPE ALM CAB member (HPE Application Lifecycle Management Customer Advisory Board)
• HPE World Wide user community (VIVIT) TQA - Testing and Quality Assurance leader
• Accenture VIVIT steering committee member