As Software AG's vice president and deputy CTO, Miko Matsumura is responsible for the company's technology strategy. His 12 years of experience in enterprise software and middleware technologies include positions as vice president of SOA product marketing at webMethods; vice president of worldwide marketing at Infravio; and chief Java evangelist at Sun Microsystems. Matsumura is also the founder and organizer of the SOA Link Interoperability Initiative, and the author of SOA Adoption for Dummies (Wiley). In addition, Matsumura — who has an MBA from San Francisco State University and a master’s degree in neuroscience from Yale University — has worked extensively with software start-up companies, raising more than $12 million in capital for Java start-ups. His blog can be found at www.SOACenter.com. 

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 technology systems and processes. With almost 40 years of global IT experience, Software AG has over 3,600 employees serving customers in 70 countries.