As Vice President and Chief Strategist at Software AG, Miko Matsumura is responsible for the technology strategy. He holds 12 years of experience in Enterprise Software and Middleware technologies.

Prior to his current role, Matsumura served as vice president of SOA product marketing at webMethods and vice president of worldwide marketing at Infravio. He emerged as an industry thought leader while at The Middleware Company, where he was a co-creator responsible for building the partner program for SOA Blueprints, the first complete vendor-neutral specification of a SOA.  This program formed the basis of the SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee at OASIS, an international standards organization.

Matsumura is the founder and organizer of the SOA Link Interoperability Initiative. He is also the author of “SOA Adoption for Dummies,” published by John Wiley and Sons. Prior to his work in the SOA space, he was Chief Java Evangelist at Sun Microsystems, focused on ISV relations and technology platform marketing.

He has worked extensively with software startup companies, raising more than $12 million in capital for Java startups. Matsumura holds an MBA from San Francisco State University and a master’s degree in neuroscience from Yale University.

Matsumura blogs at www.SOACenter.com He was named at Cloud Expo 2009 West as one of the World’s 30 Most Influential Virtualization Bloggers.

Software AG is the world’s largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software.  The company’s 4,000 global enterprise customers achieve business results faster by modernizing, integrating and automating their IT systems and processes.  With almost 40 years of global IT experience, Software AG has over 3,600 employees serving customers in 70 countries.

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