Gary Oliver

Who is Gary Oliver?

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.