Title Senior Vice President, Product Management & Security Company CA Technologies Bio Nick has come to CA with more than 23 years of experience in the software industry, architecting solutions and developing innovative products for identity, security and compliance management, as well as directory services and directory/application integration. Before his current position at CA, Nick spent 2 ½ years at Gartner as an industry analyst. At Gartner Nick conducted research and authored reports pertaining to topics such as Identity in the Cloud, Authorization and Role Management, Privileged Account Management, and Directory Services. Prior to his work at Gartner, Nick was CTO and General Manager of Identity and Windows Management business units at Quest Software where he was responsible for corporate product strategy spanning all six business units. As General Manager, Nick was responsible for the P&L for both the Identity and Access Management and the Windows Management and Migration businesses at Quest – which combined was worth over $400M in annual revenue. Before his time at Quest, Nick spent five years as Novell’s VP of Product Management for Identity and Security – with the last year and a half of that also holding the title of Novell’s CTO for Security. Previously, Nick was a Senior Analyst with the Identity and Privacy Strategies Service at Burton Group, where he authored many reports ranging from topics such as fine-grained authorization and identity services to identity management governance and directory services. Prior to his work at Burton Group, Nick was a software architect and engineering manager at Novell, where he invented the core technologies behind Novell’s Identity Manager and led the team that brought this product to fruition. Nick has also presented at numerous industry events, including Gartner Identity and Access Management Summits, Gartner’s Catalyst Conferences, Novell's BrainShare conferences, The Directory Expert's Conference, Interop, and Digital ID World conferences.